How can human beings make sure there is enough food to feed the world?

Question

How can human beings make sure there is enough food to feed the world?

Answer 1

There is enough food BUT unequal distribution either b/c of dictatorships, drought, local circumstances or over all unfair trading policies.

One of the ways to tackle the issue is through genetic engineering, to get higher yield for example. Many in the poor countries don't have modern techniques or technology, combine that with unfair trade.

Control over resources in fact leads to crisis for others ie supporting tyrants and dictators, setting policies in place favoring minority over overwhelming majority etc.

Answer 2

The fact is that the physical world is but a limitative place. For the mind that knows no bounds to its needs or to its ambitions to develop there is never enough in anything. I do not think that there will ever be enough food for all people to feed, however, there could be equal amount for all to have, in their equal shares; and even that is idealistic in the mind, as the changes for instance the changes in regional and global climate and in socio-political situations of the world could very easily disrupt any patterns of sustainability of provisions.

If we look at simplest of the facts and compare the availability of our natural resources to the human population growth factor then we realise that any short-term strategies would work only for a very short time.

I say this first and foremost, as it is important for us to see as what do we expect. For instance, if we expect to find some limitless wealth buried in a little pot and hope that that wealth would fulfil all our needs forever then may be we need to learn to look at things again. May be we need to readjust our attitudes that are currently geared into their motion by a consumer culture based upon opportunistic approach, as use or consume whatever you can and while you can.

Then may be we needed to resort back to our older heritage of traditional virtues to find our sense of sufficiency in virtues like contentment for instance. May be we needed to evolve into new forms of awareness, into new forms of fulfilment of the mind, to achieve much-needed sense of sustainability of our existence in this physical form.

It seems to me as if the world was never supposed to be enough for us human beings, that the task has always been to learn to deal with its limitations to the mind. There is not only the dearth of food and rampant poverty in the world but also the matters of more fundamental nature as there is also lack of knowledge and understand, the impoverishment in the mind in forms of fears, despair, short sightedness, and lack of vision in people, then in certain cases there appears to be almost complete blackout of compassion, kindness and concerns beyond very individualistic matters of interest.

Answer 3

Tell the Americans to ease off a bit.

Answer 4

We could stop asking questions on yahoo answers and DO something.

Answer 5

there will always be enough as long as we produce more animals and fruits and vegetable, we just gotta put our minds together and do it.

Answer 6

there would be enough food to feed the world..if people in the third world countries would get off there arses and do something for themselves and not wait for and expect handouts  from other countries who are better off..we all have to work for our living..

Answer 7

There is enough. Most of the starving people of the world are sitting under the thumb of a terrorist, murderous dictator intentionally starving them.

Answer 8

Develop the technology nessisary to bypass the agracultural

process of growing food.

1)A food replicator like the one Star Trek and oddly enough

the technology isn't impossable

                                           or

2) a chemical process of making artificial stem cells for

creating mass amounts of plant and animal products

Answer 9

I believe the only true way we can do that is by everyone having their own garden.  mmmmmm fresh tomatoes....

Answer 10

by making sure there aren't too many human beings for the food we can produce.

Answer 11

Stop breeding livestock.

A vegan diet requires less food, logically because their food doesn't have to eat or drink half as much as meat eaters food.

Answer 12

Stop overpopulating. As long as we breed like animals, we will live and die like animals.

Answer 13

The name is work. To work is the best way to make sure food won't lack. That's why they say that those who don't want to work should not eat.

Answer 14

if human beings really cared there wouldnt be a child die from starvation every 10 seconds